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Jon Gorey - Globe Correspondent February 23, 2021 3:09 pm
A severe housing shortage in Thailand last fall sent local officials scrambling to boost the supply of waterfront property. But it wasn’t more beachfront condos they needed it was seashells.
A newly thriving hermit crab population around Koh Lanta National Park meant there were more of the crustaceans on the beaches than shells for the crabs to live in. And without the protection of a shell, the crabs can’t survive. So the Thai government solicited and received donations of empty shells from around the world, which they distributed on the beaches in December.
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